Senior Staff Field Engineer · Kong · Netherlands

Hi, I'm
Kuldeep Bhati.

I help enterprises run APIs and AI traffic in production, with security, visibility and cost control built in.

For twelve years I’ve built and operated API platforms. Today I work alongside platform teams at banks, insurers and retailers, taking Kong Gateway, Konnect and AI Gateway into production. On the AI side, that means putting a governed layer between teams and the AI services they use, from LLM calls to MCP servers: authenticating every request, enforcing security and guardrails, keeping token spend under control, and giving platform owners visibility into usage, latency and cost.

Everything I write here comes from a real customer problem and how we solved it in production.

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Skills
  • Kong Gateway
  • Konnect
  • AI Gateway
  • MCP
  • Governance as code
  • Konnect migrations
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenTelemetry
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Latest writing

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  1. 01 Kong Gateway metrics, logs and traces in one GrafanaTwo Kong plugins and one OpenTelemetry Collector take you from a 5xx spike on Kong's dashboard to the failing request's log line and trace. 7 min
  2. 02 Part 1: Proxy and secure your first LLM with Kong AI GatewayPart 1 of a hands-on series. Put an LLM behind Kong AI Gateway, lock it with an API key, and call it from your own code. 9 min
  3. 03 Kong AI Gateway governance as code: lint checks before go-liveMCP tool access, logged prompts, literal secrets: governance gaps visible in the YAML. A kongctl lint ruleset for Kong AI Gateway catches them before apply. 10 min